Literature
Driver Education
Abstraction
Biology
Cultures
100
Which classification system allows books to be organized based on their subject matter, rather than the order in which they were purchased?
The Dewey Decimal system
100
When does the New Jersey's Graduated Driver Law (GDL) forbid driving?
Between 11:01 pm and 5:00 am.
100
What is the meaning of life?
Most answers accepted.
100
How many scents can the human nose remember?
50,000
100
What is the seventh-largest country in Europe?
Germany
200
Which movement focused on a rebirth of knowledge after the Middle Ages in Europe and England?
The Renaissance
200
The following behaviors can warrant police to do what?
1. Slowing down to try and compensate for a distraction
2. Weaving between lanes
3. Taking an unusually long time to start moving again once the stoplight turns green
4. Staring down into your lap or keeping one hand off the wheel and out of sight
Pulling the driver over for suspicion of texting and driving.
200
Which philosophical perspective promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the majority of a population?
Utilitarianism
200
What is the name for chemicals that kill disease-spreading bacteria?
Antibiotics
200
Which countries have a population of over 1.3 billion?
India and China
300
What is the top bestselling novel and author of all time?
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
300
What four problems are the most common causes of teenage car crashes?
Distraction, inexperience, speeding, and failure to yield.
300
Which philosophy focuses more on the active, feeling, living human rather than the thinking, believing, spiritual human being?
Existentialism
300
What are the names of the largest and the smallest cells in humans?
The female egg cell (largest) and the male sperm cell (smallest).
300
For which country have the following cities been the capitals?
Aachen, Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Weimar, Bonn
Germany
400
Which three sources are the most common for allusions in western literature?
Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible
400
How many years of licensed driving experience must a person possess who sits with a person who wants to get their permit?
Five years
400
How would you interpret the following statement?
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language or speaking is the connection between the mind and the world, OR:
Words, grammar, and usage are as important as thinking and experiencing, OR:Don't forget the importance of communication in the learning process for new ideas and places, history, and the solution to problems, OR:
Another plausible interpretation.
400
For what did Alexander Fleming win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945?
The discovery of penicillin
400
In which festival and country do the following delicacies appear?
Seagull eggs, mountain oysters, possum cutlets, gorse wine, earthworms, Huhu beetle grubs, frogs' legs, and snails in garlic.
The Wildfoods Festival in New Zealand
500
Which author wrote As I Lay Dying?
William Faulkner
500
How much can a German driver's license cost and how many hours of training needed to obtain it?
A German driver’s license costs over $2000, after a minimum of 25-45 hours of professional instruction plus 12 hours of theory.
500
What is the difference between philosophy and metaphysics?
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with existence, identity, space, time, causality, and the like. Philosophy includes other topics not in metaphysics, such as ethics, logic, epistemology, and aesthetics.
500
What do the several pronounced dips in the curve for the chart below show?
They show major mass-extinction events
500
What did the Egyptian god Hathor create and the pharoah Osiris develop to civilize the world?
Hathor was credited with the invention of music, which Osiris in turn used as part of his effort to civilize the world.